Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 8:33

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When our blessed Saviour was in his lowest condition, and the utmost degree of his exinanition; his soul being made a Sacrifice for us, and suffering that desertion for a time, we had merited for ever; and his body laid in the grave as in a prison; Then

his judgment, the punishment which was inflicted upon him in our stead, was taken away; for he brak the bonds of death, and opened the prison-door: this was foretold, altho in somewhat differing expressions, by the Prophet Isaiah, 53.7, 8.

Those that shall be brought forth by this travail of his Soul, are innumerable, or his own Eternal generation; (who could do such great things, as overcame death it self for us) is inexpressible; but by generation, others (more to the scope of this place) understand Christs duration, or abiding, notwithstanding that he died; [non-Latin text not transcribed], does often signifie duration; and thus 'tis an ordinary expression with the Prophet, Isa[illegible: 1 letter]ah 34.10, 17. from generation to generation: now none can comprehend that eternal duration of Christ who dyes no more, Rom. 6.9. and of whose Kingdom there is no end, Luke 1.33.

Christ acquired his glory by his suffering; his very exceeding great weight of glory, was indeed wrought for him by his afflictions, (as for us, 2 Cor. 4.17.) his becoming obedient unto the death, was the cause why he was so highly exalted, Phil. 2.8, 9.